Installing Elixir on Ubuntu 15.10

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If I try to install on Ubuntu 15.10 I get the error message below.

Any ideas?

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 esl-erlang : Depends: libssl0.9.8 but it is not installable
              Recommends: erlang-mode but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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Have you tried installing libssl-dev first?

I’m not that familiar with Ubuntu but I guess with something like:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
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First as I remember Ubuntu had outdated Erlang.
To install the latest erlang http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/07/05/installing-elixir-on-ubuntu-13-04/

Second you don’t need to install Elxiir. You can download binary files and add location to your path.

This is how you can have the latest setup.

PS
Now I am running http://neon.kde.org/ :slight_smile:

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Thanks.

I started from scratch and installed from the repository as described on https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/download.html.

wget http://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install esl-erlang
sudo apt-get install elixir

This gives me the following versions:

root@simon:~# iex
Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.3] [source-d2a6d81] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Interactive Elixir (1.2.3) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)>

I will have a look at the Elixir binary files if I need a newer version. Thanks.

And I will give KDE neon a try as well. Looking good.

Edit:
Just installed KDE neon. Looks refreshing, clean, easy to use.:smiley:

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Off topic:
If you want cool console for kde try Yakuake

If you want cool shell try Oh My Fish

And you will never back to windows OS again :smiley:

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I think you’re better to use kiex and kerl to manage the Elixir / Erlang version.

Since quite a number of libraries are depending the newer version Elixir

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This actually worked for me:
To fix the error with esl-erlang

echo 'deb https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/ubuntu xenial contrib' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/ubuntu/erlang_solutions.asc

sudo apt-key add erlang_solutions.asc

sudo apt update && sudo apt install esl-erlang

And then I could install elixir:

sudo apt-get install elixir